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Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD March 2007
... are right), who is going to guide them? My guess is that doctors are going to be asked to do the guiding, get little ... training and experience that they simply don’t have. BC has yet to follow Alberta into this new territory. The ... legal and ethical ramifications of doing so for BC’s doctors and pharmacists suggest that such legislation would ...
Letters / BY: Hugh H. Macartney, MB, FRCP, June 2007
... offices, emergency rooms, and hospital departments across BC. The service is underused by physicians at present, ... for patient care. Anything you can do to encourage the doctors in British Columbia to take advantage of this simple ... —ED I agree with you that pharmacists should not work as doctors. But I had trouble getting to the heart of your ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2007
Doctors as individuals are for the most part emotionally ... this problem and by so doing forced the government and BC’s doctors to look at establishing several satellite medical ...
News July/August 2007
... Dept. of Psychiatry 7000 Westminster Highway  Richmond BC, V6X 1A2 Phone 604 278-9711, ext. 4055 ... but cannot do so because there are not enough nurses, doctors, or medical assistants. There, a medical assistant ... up to 2 months to start treatment because of the lack of doctors and nurses, and many have died during the wait.  In ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) July/August 2006
... and alternative medicine (CAM) is reported to be common in BC as it is in Canada in general. With the assistance of the ... response profile matched that of physicians in BC overall. Doctors were asked about how often they enquired about their ... been used for at least some patients by roughly 20% of the doctors surveyed. Others from the list were used rarely or ...
Back Page / BY: E.F. Vreede, MD, October 2006
... the Owl Call My Name, but the vastness and beauty of the BC coast, its inlets and islands, its mountains and sheer ... up in Holland was not much of a preparation to tackle the BC wilderness. Without a doubt, the UBC rural family practice ... of innovations since coming to Port McNeill, including doctors visits to small, isolated Aboriginal villages such as ...
Letters / BY: Margaret McGregor, MD, December 2006
... put forward another point of view. A substantial number of BC physicians, including myself, found the prospect of the ... sent a message to the rest of the country that not all doctors here are comfortable with BC’s choice to represent the public face of Canadian doctors. The constitutional “loophole” referred to by JAW ...
Letters / BY: Adam Lund, MD, MEd July/August 2006
... My colleagues and I frequently receive notice from family doctors’ offices or clinics (those courteous enough to call ... to defend. —Adam Lund, MD Royal Columbian/Eagle Ridge/ BC Children’s Hospitals * ACS = Acute coronary ...
President's Comment / BY: Michael Golbey, MD June 2006
... which also attempted to better reward full-service family doctors. There was spirited debate around the proposals and ... expressed significant concerns. The proposals were sent to BC’s family physicians for referendum, and they did not ... their time to strengthen the BCMA for the benefit of all doctors and our patients. The Society of General ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD September 2006
... the firmly stated political wishes of a majority of BC’s physicians and put forward their own preferred ... would even consider trampling all over the rights of BC’s physicians. Such action would reflect a paternalistic ... with very little thought to the democratic rights of the doctors in BC. I wonder what will be the next freedom deemed ...